Jacqueline Kennedy poses at her typewriter where she writes her weekly "Candidate's Wife" column in her Georgetown home in Washington.
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Jacqueline Kennedy maintained a 14-year correspondence with an Irish priest before and after she became First Lady, sharing with him her most intimate fears and joys.

Those letters will be sold at auction in Ireland next month, and the Irish Times has published some revealing excerpts from her never-before-seen correspondence with Dublin priest Father Joseph Leonard.

In one 1952 letter, she revealed she was in love with “the son of the ambassador to England,” but admitted she worried he would end up being like her father.

“He’s like my father in a way—loves the chase and is bored with the conquest—and once married needs proof he’s still attractive, so flirts with other women and resents you,” she wrote. “I saw how that nearly killed Mummy.”

In 1953, the year she married John F. Kennedy at age 23, she wrote to Father Leonard,

“Maybe I’m just dazzled and picture myself in a glittering world of crowned heads and Men of Destiny—and not just a sad little housewife…That world can be very glamorous from the outside—but if you’re in it—and you’re lonely—it could be a Hell.”

However, after a year of marriage, she said she loved “being married much more than I did even in the beginning.”

Ten years later after JFK’s assassination, she wrote she had grown “bitter against God.”

“I have to think there is a God—or I have no hope of finding Jack again,” adding, “God will have a bit of explaining to do to me if I ever see Him.”

The archive will sell in auction on June 10th, likely for more than $1.3 million.